David Roderick won the APR/Honickman Prize for his first book, Blue Colonial (Copper Canyon Press, 2008). He has published poetry and fiction in several journals, including AGNI, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Verse, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He was recently a recipient of the Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship. (updated 6/2010)